Newspaper Page Text

iS-.'c. Shoft'tor $2 andwatch,'" ; SAP piofe squeeze unc vs uva
Low 35 Hicih 49 m m n fi s n
sphXocoo,lows main hospojahzed -page2 - - on congress -Pages " mmtSp
Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 94, Issue 122
No elbow
By MITRA LOTFI
Staff Writer
According to Chapel Hill's
December demographic report, by
the year 2025 all the developable land
to which Chapel Hill extends water
and sewer services will be developed.
That area is bordered by 1-40 to
the north and N.C. 54 and Morgan
Creek to the south.
Also by 2025, Chapel Hill's pop
; ulation w ill have more than doubled
the 1985 figure of 38.454 people, the
report predicts. The fastest growth
is expected between now and 2000.
And by 2000, the only available
land will be pieces that aren't easily
suited for development, such as steep
hills, so it will take extra time and
money for projects to occur, said
Arthur Jackson, a member of the
MlM to
take chair
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON - Sen. Jesse
Helms, a bulwark of the right wing
of North Carolina politics, Tuesday
ousted moderate Sen. Richard Lugar
of Indiana as ranking Republican
member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
Helms' 24-17 victory in secret
balloting by members of the Senate
Republican Caucus was widely
interpreted by Republican senators
as a vote to ensure the preservation
of the Senate's seniority system
rather than as an ideological
decision.
Moments after the vote, the
Senate approved a resolution seating
the ranking members of Senate
committees, a step that ratified the
action oi the GOP caucus.
Helms, 65, referring to what he
says is a bias against him by the
members of the news media,
emerged fromm the conference room
in the Capitol and told a crowd of
reporters: "I'm sorry to disappoint
you, folks, but you lost."
The GOP members of the Foreign
Relations Committee had voted 7
0 on Jan. 6 to retain Lugar, 54, as
the panel's senior Republican voice.
Lugar had served as chairman of the
committee for the last two years
while the Senate was under Repub
lican control.
Helms was elected to the Senate
in 1972 and Lugar was elected in
1976. Both were named to the
Foreign Relations Committee on the
same day.
Computers
go on fritz
You are not reading the issue
of The Daily Tar Heel that the
staff originally planned to
publish.
About 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
night, the DTH's computer sys
tem crashed and burned. It was
another three and half hours
before the staff could resume
working on the terminals.
As a result, , this issue was
necessarily shrunk from eight
pages to six. That's why this issue
reads more like an ad circular
than the DTH the same
number of ads are squeezed into
two fewer pages.
But hey, what do you expect
for free?
Gunter announces candidacy for SBP
By JEAN LUTES
Assistant University Editor
Mark Gunter, a junior political
science and economics major from
Fuquay-Varina, has announced his
candidacy for student body
president.
Gunter said this is the year for
change at UNC, with projects like
the new parking deck and the
proposed drop-add system for 1988,
and he wants to be the leader that
initiates cooperation among stu
dents, student government and the
administration.
"I've lived 40 minutes away from
Chapel Hill all my life," Gunter said.
"I think I'm in touch with what
room to
Growth and
Development
Monday: Housing picture
Tuesday: A changing image
D Wednesday: Planned growth
Thursday: Side effects
Friday. Goodbye, village
town's planning staff.
Chapel Hill's density is now 3.6
persons per acre, just behind Raleigh
as the densest community in the
Triangle area.
So, where are the expected 1,000
Door jammin9
ill ..i : ,3:.,
ii-h " i s . - - vW I-.' f i
i s N:; v" s - v a J v! I " . s a , ;
j$ I. siiuwAaiwjM''MWwriiiiwwi(wiiriwinriWii-iiijKiw $ f 7 , yinmiiiMWHuwimwimuuL v
fijavyri"ifrii' ' ' i' r ' ' ' ' " " tf Si
VS- t i" " ' ' ti Ik" " " ft
s ; I 1 1 s C f " i ' "
---.-r-la-JJMaJJawJUJwt inww'fir'iiotrilViri-Wlll'l 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 HIT it 1 10 I l' ' Yo II 1 D 0 I II II II 1 1 CO 1 1 1 1 ill D 1 1 1 1 1 H G PI 1 1 1 1 1 1 M -----------------n- Vnn f
?F r J- ; :
; ? i i ':vyy' ill I
1 'I '-k It- VvV? ii; 5
j'VI - iis t -; ! J
f Ilf ' f '-3Si If
' i"v;A ' 5 : if s
"'-' y&V , ':, '. II x
' ' - 'c '''4,' ' it it
:v ; ;;rr,,TT,y'- It - - ---
1 ' - If II
Z&?iiiixMtoM ; ji , , ,7k ' t" s, '" '4,' w giiMtoiaiaft
-r r i : jt
Mark Parker of the Protective Equipment
Company recently installed a new security
Elections 1987
Chapel Hill has done and how the
town and the University have pro
gressed. I see what direction we need
to go in."
Gunter said assigning a group of
upperclassmen to work with General
College advisers and putting pres
sure on the Carolina Athletic Asso
ciation to adopt a consistent ticket
distribution policy would be central
concerns for him as student body
president.
"Students could help the advisers
with their tremendous workload," he
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Wednesday, January 21, 1987
ffMtmure for Southern pairtt off Heaven
new people each year going to go?
And what condition will this area,
which already faces traffic problems
and a shortage of affordable hous
ing, be in by the year 2025?
These questions are uppermost in
the minds of officials who are trying
to bridle the town's galloping growth
rate.
Managing the influx
"The local governments in the area
are going to have to find ways of
coping with the growth," said Jon
athan Howes, a Town Councilman
and director of UNC's Center for
Urban and Regional Studies.
With 75 percent of the economy
based on services and government,
Chapel Hill's revenues are constant,
and this stability also promotes
system in the
which is in the
said. "The upperclassmen have taken
the classes before, the advisers
haven't."
And the ticket distribution policy
has been changed too many times,
Gunter said. "If they say it's going
to be a totally random system, it
should be totally random," he said.
"I called the ticket office and they
told me they gave the best 5,000 seats
out early in the morning."
. Gunter also wants to set up a
student committee to serve as a
liaison between the town and student
government. "After the Franklin
Street problem earlier this year (the
See GUNTER page 2
The computer is a moron. Peter Drucker
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
growth.
And since most of the jobs to be
created in the next decades will be
in knowledge and service fields, the
economy is not likely to change.
Vulnerable economies based on
industry and manufacturing do not
provide a sound foundation for
development, according to the
report.
By the end of this year, the town
hopes to decide how fast Chapel Hill
should grow in the future and what
methods to use to achieve that
growth rate, Jackson said.
Most commonly, a town will
reduce its zoning densities to hold
back the number of people coming
in.
"We need to re-assess the impact
of current development and see how
DTH Charlotte Cannon
main door of Wilson Library,
last stages of renovation.
::;Ki;i:i-.
Mm.
r : K
J
Mark Gunter
li
MS'
3t
that fits into the history of Chapel
Hill and its patterns of growth,"
Jackson said.
"Chapel Hill is not growing as fast
as it did in the 60s, but the impact
seems to be more severe now."
Inadequate roadways and the
drought of 1986 both have magnified
the problems related to rapid
development.
"We're already straining our
resources at this point," Jackson
said.
"We need to have some guidelines;
even if the current boom should stop
tomorrow, the long-range planning
needs to be done as soon as possibles
Some of the town's public services
have already been enlarged.
"We're breaking ground for a new
reservoir at Cain Creek this month,
dkamfli villagers
oWect to plani
By TOM CAMP
Staff Writer
and JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
Residents of Odum Village, a
married-student housing complex on
campus, called for the development
of "permanent opposition" Tuesday
to a Rams' Club proposal that could
route post-game traffic from the
Smith Center through their
neighborhood.
The proposal, done by a private
consulting, firm hired by The Edu
cational Foundation (more com
monly known as the Rams' Club),
was part of an August report aimed
at easing fans' exits from the Smith
Center after games.
Odum residents oppose the plan
because they want to preserve a safe
and peaceful environment for their
children, residents said at the Odum
Village Board of Alderman meeting
Tuesday night.
"1 am concerned for the neighbor
hood children if all the traffic comes
through here," said Elizabeth Zapata
of 306 Mason Farm Road, one of
about 20 Odum residents at the
meeting. "I don't have a child yet,
but 1 live right next to the
playground.
Brady chooses to run
a second time for SBP
By JEAN LUTES
Assistant University Editor
David Brady, a junior political
science major from Rocky Mount,
has announced his candidacy for
student body president.
If elected, Brady said he wants to
improve student life and make UNC
fun for students to attend.
"We need to have a president
who's going to worry about students'
concerns, no matter how big or
small," he said.
Getting students better seats in the
Smith Center and organizing all
campus parties and pep rallies would
be priorities for Brady.
"It's supposed to be the Student
Activites Center," Brady said. "It's
not the Student Activities Center in
row X. I was in the nosebleed section
for the State game."
Brady said Student Government
can work within constraints on prac
tical ideas. "You can't demand things
from the Educational Foundation,"
he said. "But we can sit down and
talk to them."
Most students never come in con
tact with Student Government,
Brady said. Activities like all-campus
parties can bring Student Govern
ment into every student's life, he said.
"We need to get out and listen to
people," he said. "I'm a very good
people listener and a very good
organizer. That's all you need for
leadership."
The theme of Brady's campaign is
"Students," he said. "We need to get
out and ask people what's on their
minds, and have people willing to go
out to dorms every week and ask
questions."
Brady, who ran for student body
president last year and was defeated
by then-sophomore Bryan Hassel in
News Sports Arts 962-0245
BusinessAdvertising 962-1163
we've expanded the sewer treatment
plant and we've added staff to our
recreation program," said David
Godschalk, Town Councilman and
UNC professor of city and regional
planning.
Unfortunately, inflation of land
prices and property taxes has accom
panied Chapel Hill's growth.
"It is difficult for people with even
medium incomes to find affordable
housing in Chapel Hill," Jackson
said.
The town's objective is to keep the
feeling of a small community as it
continues to grow.
"Chapel Hill's approach has been
to define an area and say, 'this is
as far as well go,' " Howes said.
See CHAPEL HILL page 2
"Also, 1 don't think saving 30
minutes out of a parking lot is worth
a few privileged individuals bene
fiting (from paving new streets
through Odum Village)," she said.
The Board of Aldermen called for
"immediate action" against the
Rams' Club proposal to build "spe
cial event -bac-door driveways"
from one of the three main Smith
Center lots (the F Lot, the Green
Lot and the FR Lot).
In the meeting, residents divided
into two "action" committees one
to write a position letter to University
administrators, members of Univer
sity professional schools and Rams'
Club members, and another that will
circulate a petition around the 306
Odum Village apartments.
The Educational Foundation's
report, "Traffic Ingress-Egress, Dean
E. Smith Student Activities Center,"
suggested two possible exit routes
that would require that traffic be
moved out of the F Lot to Branson
Street, a two-way road.
Incoming traffic will probably be
blocked off, residents say, which
would leave them unable to get to
their houses for an hour after
See ALDERMEN page 2
1
-.
David Brady
Elections 1987
a run-off election, said being away
from Student Government for a year
has taught him that just putting up
signs in residence halls about pro
grams doesnt make a difference.
"When you're in Suite C (the
Student Government office), you're
inside and you think that's the most
important," Brady said. "But it's
not."
Promoting a more lenient alcohol
policy in residence halls, lowering the
cost of copying in the campus
libraries and ensuring that students
wil be able to use the new South
Campus parking deck are goals for
Brady.
"The average guy at Carolina
rarely sees benefit from Student
See BRADY page 2
I H i
V ;ky:
- 9
i